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2 Kings
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1 Then Moab
rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
2 And Ahaziah=
fell
down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was si=
ck:
and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub the go=
d of
Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
3 But the ang=
el of
the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of
the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a Go=
d in
Israel, that ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?
4 Now therefo=
re
thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou a=
rt
gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.
5 And when the
messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned b=
ack?
6 And they sa=
id
unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again =
unto
the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not
because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of Baalz=
ebub
the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which
thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
7 And he said=
unto
them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you the=
se
words?
8 And they an=
swered
him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins.
And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
9 Then the ki=
ng
sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and,
behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of Go=
d,
the king hath said, Come down.
10 And Elijah answered and=
said
to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from
heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heave=
n,
and consumed him and his fifty.
11 Again also he sent unto=
him
another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him,=
O
man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly.
12 And Elijah answered and=
said
unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume
thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed=
him
and his fifty.
13 And he sent again a cap=
tain
of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, =
and
came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto h=
im,
O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy
servants, be precious in thy sight.
14 Behold, there came fire=
down
from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their
fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.
15 And the angel of the LO=
RD
said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and
went down with him unto the king.
16 And he said unto him, T=
hus
saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baalze=
bub
the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to enquire of=
his
word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone
up, but shalt surely die.
17 So he died according to=
the
word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead =
in
the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he=
had
no son.
18 Now the rest of the act=
s of
Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of=
the
kings of Israel?
1 And it came=
to
pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that
Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
2 And Elijah =
said
unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Bethel. =
And
Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not
leave thee. So they went down to Bethel.
3 And the son=
s of
the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him,
Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? =
And
he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.
4 And Elijah =
said
unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to
Jericho. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not
leave thee. So they came to Jericho.
5 And the son=
s of
the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest
thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he
answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.
6 And Elijah =
said
unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the LORD hath sent me to Jordan. An=
d he
said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. An=
d they
two went on.
7 And fifty m=
en of
the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar off: and they two sto=
od
by Jordan.
8 And Elijah =
took
his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were
divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.
9 And it came=
to
pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I sh=
all
do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee,
let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
10 And he said, Thou hast =
asked
a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it sh=
all
be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.
11 And it came to pass, as=
they
still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, =
and
horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirl=
wind
into heaven.
12 And Elisha saw it, and =
he
cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereo=
f.
And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them =
in
two pieces.
13 He took up also the man=
tle of
Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan; =
14 And he took the mantle =
of
Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD
God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither =
and
thither: and Elisha went over.
15 And when the sons of the
prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of El=
ijah
doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the
ground before him.
16 And they said unto him,
Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pr=
ay
thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath ta=
ken
him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, =
Ye
shall not send.
17 And when they urged him=
till
he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they soug=
ht
three days, but found him not.
18 And when they came agai=
n to
him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you=
, Go
not?
19 And the men of the city=
said
unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, a=
s my
lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.
20 And he said, Bring me a=
new
cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
21 And he went forth unto =
the
spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the
LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more d=
eath
or barren land.
22 So the waters were heal=
ed
unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
23 And he went up from the=
nce
unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little
children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou ba=
ld
head; go up, thou bald head.
24 And he turned back, and
looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came for=
th
two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
25 And he went from thence=
to
mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria.
1 Now Jehoram=
the
son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of
Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.
2 And he wrou=
ght
evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother:
for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.
3 Nevertheles=
s he
cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to si=
n;
he departed not therefrom.
4 And Mesha k=
ing of
Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred
thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
5 But it came=
to
pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of
Israel.
6 And king Je=
horam
went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel.
7 And he went=
and
sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebell=
ed
against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I wil=
l go
up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.=
8 And he said,
Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of
Edom.
9 So the king=
of
Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a
compass of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, and for
the cattle that followed them.
10 And the king of Israel =
said,
Alas! that the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them
into the hand of Moab!
11 But Jehoshaphat said, Is
there not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may enquire of the LORD by hi=
m?
And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here is Elisha =
the
son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah.
12 And Jehoshaphat said, T=
he
word of the LORD is with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the
king of Edom went down to him.
13 And Elisha said unto th=
e king
of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy fat=
her,
and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Na=
y:
for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into t=
he
hand of Moab.
14 And Elisha said, As the=
LORD
of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the
presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor
see thee.
15 But now bring me a mins=
trel.
And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD ca=
me
upon him.
16 And he said, Thus saith=
the
LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.
17 For thus saith the LORD= , Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be fil= led with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts. <= o:p>
18 And this is but a light=
thing
in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.=
19 And ye shall smite every
fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop
all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
20 And it came to pass in =
the
morning, when the meat offering was offered, that, behold, there came water=
by
the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
21 And when all the Moabit=
es
heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered all =
that
were able to put on armour, and upward, and stood in the border.
22 And they rose up early =
in the
morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on
the other side as red as blood:
23 And they said, This is =
blood:
the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefor=
e,
Moab, to the spoil.
24 And when they came to t=
he
camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they
fled before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in their
country.
25 And they beat down the
cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled
it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees:
only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went
about it, and smote it.
26 And when the king of Mo=
ab saw
that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men th=
at
drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom: but they could no=
t.
27 Then he took his eldest=
son
that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering
upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they
departed from him, and returned to their own land.
1 Now there c=
ried a
certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying,=
Thy
servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the
LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen. =
2 And Elisha =
said
unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? A=
nd
she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil=
.
3 Then he sai=
d, Go,
borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow
not a few.
4 And when th=
ou art
come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt po=
ur
out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.
5 So she went=
from
him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels =
to
her; and she poured out.
6 And it came=
to
pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a
vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil staye=
d.
7 Then she ca=
me and
told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and l=
ive
thou and thy children of the rest.
8 And it fell=
on a
day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constra=
ined
him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in
thither to eat bread.
9 And she sai=
d unto
her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which
passeth by us continually.
10 Let us make a little ch=
amber,
I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, =
and
a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he
shall turn in thither.
11 And it fell on a day, t=
hat he
came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there.
12 And he said to Gehazi h=
is
servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before
him.
13 And he said unto him, S=
ay now
unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is=
to
be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captai=
n of
the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people.
14 And he said, What then =
is to
be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her hus=
band
is old.
15 And he said, Call her. =
And
when he had called her, she stood in the door.
16 And he said, About this
season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she sa=
id,
Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
17 And the woman conceived=
, and
bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the t=
ime
of life.
18 And when the child was =
grown,
it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
19 And he said unto his fa=
ther,
My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.
20 And when he had taken h=
im,
and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died=
.
21 And she went up, and la=
id him
on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
22 And she called unto her
husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of t=
he
asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
23 And he said, Wherefore =
wilt
thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It
shall be well.
24 Then she saddled an ass=
, and
said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, ex=
cept
I bid thee.
25 So she went and came un=
to the
man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her
afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that
Shunammite:
26 Run now, I pray thee, t=
o meet
her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? i=
s it
well with the child? And she answered, It is well:
27 And when she came to th=
e man
of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thr=
ust
her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed wit=
hin
her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
28 Then she said, Did I de=
sire a
son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?
29 Then he said to Gehazi,=
Gird
up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet=
any
man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay =
my
staff upon the face of the child.
30 And the mother of the c=
hild
said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. An=
d he
arose, and followed her.
31 And Gehazi passed on be=
fore
them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither
voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, sayi=
ng,
The child is not awaked.
32 And when Elisha was com=
e into
the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
33 He went in therefore, a=
nd
shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD.
34 And he went up, and lay=
upon
the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and
his hands upon his hands: and stretched himself upon the child; and the fle=
sh
of the child waxed warm.
35 Then he returned, and w=
alked
in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and t=
he
child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
36 And he called Gehazi, a=
nd said,
Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, =
he
said, Take up thy son.
37 Then she went in, and f=
ell at
his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went ou=
t.
38 And Elisha came again to
Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets we=
re
sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and
seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
39 And one went out into t=
he
field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gou=
rds
his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew
them not.
40 So they poured out for =
the
men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that t=
hey
cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they
could not eat thereof.
41 But he said, Then bring=
meal.
And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they
may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.
42 And there came a man fr=
om
Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty
loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, G=
ive
unto the people, that they may eat.
43 And his servitor said, =
What,
should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, th=
at
they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave ther=
eof.
44 So he set it before the=
m, and
they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the LORD.
1 Now Naaman,
captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, =
and
honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was
also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
2 And the Syr=
ians
had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of
Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.
3 And she sai=
d unto
her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! f=
or
he would recover him of his leprosy.
4 And one wen=
t in,
and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land =
of
Israel.
5 And the kin=
g of
Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. An=
d he
departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces =
of
gold, and ten changes of raiment.
6 And he brou=
ght
the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter is come unto
thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou ma=
yest
recover him of his leprosy.
7 And it came=
to
pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes,
and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto=
me
to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see ho=
w he
seeketh a quarrel against me.
8&n=
bsp; And
it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had
rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent
thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prop=
het
in Israel.
9&n=
bsp; So
Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of =
the
house of Elisha.
10&=
nbsp; And
Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times,
and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
11&=
nbsp; But
Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely
come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and st=
rike
his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
12&=
nbsp; Are
not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of
Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in=
a
rage.
13&=
nbsp; And
his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the pro=
phet
had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much
rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
14&=
nbsp; Then
went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the sa=
ying
of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little
child, and he was clean.
15&=
nbsp; And
he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood
before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the
earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy
servant.
16&=
nbsp; But
he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And =
he
urged him to take it; but he refused.
17&=
nbsp; And
Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two
mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt
offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.
18&=
nbsp; In
this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the
house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myse=
lf
in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the =
LORD
pardon thy servant in this thing.
19&=
nbsp; And
he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
20&=
nbsp; But
Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath
spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brou=
ght:
but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
21&=
nbsp; So
Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he
lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?
22&=
nbsp; And
he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now ther=
e be
come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: gi=
ve
them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.
23&=
nbsp; And
Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two
talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them =
upon
two of his servants; and they bare them before him.
24&=
nbsp; And
when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them =
in
the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.
25&=
nbsp; But
he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence
comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither.
26&=
nbsp; And
he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again =
from
his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive
garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservan=
ts,
and maidservants?
27&=
nbsp; The
leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for e=
ver.
And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
1 And the son=
s of
the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with th=
ee
is too strait for us.
2 Let us go, =
we
pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make u=
s a
place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
3 And one sai=
d, Be
content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.=
4 So he went =
with
them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.
5 But as one =
was
felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, A=
las,
master! for it was borrowed.
6 And the man=
of
God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a sti=
ck,
and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.
7 Therefore s=
aid
he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it.
8 Then the ki=
ng of
Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In
such and such a place shall be my camp.
9 And the man=
of
God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a
place; for thither the Syrians are come down.
10 And the king of Israel =
sent
to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved him=
self
there, not once nor twice.
11 Therefore the heart of =
the
king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants,=
and
said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel? =
12 And one of his servants=
said,
None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth t=
he
king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
13 And he said, Go and spy=
where
he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, =
he
is in Dothan.
14 Therefore sent he thith=
er
horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compass=
ed
the city about.
15 And when the servant of=
the
man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the c=
ity
both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my mast=
er!
how shall we do?
16 And he answered, Fear n=
ot:
for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.
17 And Elisha prayed, and =
said,
LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the =
eyes
of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses =
and
chariots of fire round about Elisha.
18 And when they came down=
to
him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee,
with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of
Elisha.
19 And Elisha said unto th=
em,
This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring =
you
to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria.
20 And it came to pass, wh=
en
they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these
men, that they may see. And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and,
behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
21 And the king of Israel =
said
unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite
them?
22 And he answered, Thou s=
halt
not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with=
thy
sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat =
and
drink, and go to their master.
23 And he prepared great
provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, a=
nd
they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land=
of
Israel.
24 And it came to pass aft=
er
this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and
besieged Samaria.
25 And there was a great f=
amine
in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for
fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for
five pieces of silver.
26 And as the king of Isra=
el was
passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lo=
rd,
O king.
27 And he said, If the LOR=
D do
not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the
winepress?
28 And the king said unto =
her,
What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, =
that
we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
29 So we boiled my son, an=
d did
eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat
him: and she hath hid her son.
30 And it came to pass, wh=
en the
king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed =
by
upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within =
upon
his flesh.
31 Then he said, God do so=
and
more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him
this day.
32 But Elisha sat in his h=
ouse,
and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but e=
re
the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a
murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh,
shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his maste=
r's
feet behind him?
33 And while he yet talked=
with
them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this e=
vil
is of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?
1 Then Elisha=
said,
Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time
shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of bar=
ley
for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
2 Then a lord=
on
whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the
LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold,
thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
3 And there w=
ere
four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to anoth=
er,
Why sit we here until we die?
4 If we say, =
We
will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die
there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us
fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; an=
d if
they kill us, we shall but die.
5 And they ro=
se up
in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were com=
e to
the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
6 For the LOR=
D had
made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of
horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, t=
he
king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kin=
gs
of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
7 Wherefore t=
hey
arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and
their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
8 And when th=
ese
lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and=
did
eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went a=
nd
hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence a=
lso,
and went and hid it.
9 Then they s=
aid
one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we h=
old
our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon=
us:
now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.
10 So they came and called=
unto
the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of =
the
Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but hor=
ses
tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.
11 And he called the porte=
rs;
and they told it to the king's house within.
12 And the king arose in t=
he
night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have
done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the
camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the cit=
y,
we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.
13 And one of his servants
answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that rema=
in,
which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel
that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of t=
he
Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.
14 They took therefore two
chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go=
and
see.
15 And they went after the=
m unto
Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the
Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told=
the
king.
16 And the people went out=
, and
spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a
shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of t=
he
LORD.
17 And the king appointed =
the
lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people
trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who sp=
ake
when the king came down to him.
18 And it came to pass as =
the
man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a she=
kel,
and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this tim=
e in
the gate of Samaria:
19 And that lord answered =
the
man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heave=
n, might
such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but
shalt not eat thereof.
20 And so it fell out unto=
him:
for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
1 Then spake =
Elisha
unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go th=
ou
and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LO=
RD
hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.=
2 And the wom=
an
arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her
household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
3 And it came=
to
pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the
Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for =
her
land.
4 And the king
talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray t=
hee,
all the great things that Elisha hath done.
5 And it came=
to
pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, t=
hat,
behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for=
her
house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman,
and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
6 And when th=
e king
asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain
officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field
since the day that she left the land, even until now.
7 And Elisha =
came
to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him,
saying, The man of God is come hither.
8 And the kin=
g said
unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and
enquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
9 So Hazael w=
ent to
meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus,
forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benh=
adad
king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease=
?
10 And Elisha said unto hi=
m, Go,
say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me
that he shall surely die.
11 And he settled his
countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.
12 And Hazael said, Why we=
epeth
my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the
children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their you=
ng
men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up
their women with child.
13 And Hazael said, But wh=
at, is
thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered,=
The
LORD hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.
14 So he departed from Eli=
sha,
and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he
answered, He told me that thou shouldest surely recover.
15 And it came to pass on =
the
morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on
his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.
16 And in the fifth year of
Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah,
Jehoram the son of Je hoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
17 Thirty and two years ol=
d was
he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
18 And he walked in the wa=
y of
the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was=
his
wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
19 Yet the LORD would not
destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him
alway a light, and to his children.
20 In his days Edom revolt=
ed
from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
21 So Joram went over to Z=
air,
and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites
which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people
fled into their tents.
22 Yet Edom revolted from =
under
the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
23 And the rest of the act=
s of
Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronic=
les
of the kings of Judah?
24 And Joram slept with his
fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah =
his
son reigned in his stead.
25 In the twelfth year of =
Joram
the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah
begin to reign.
26 Two and twenty years ol=
d was
Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And h=
is
mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
27 And he walked in the wa=
y of
the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the house =
of
Ahab: for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab.
28 And he went with Joram =
the
son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the
Syrians wounded Joram.
29 And king Joram went bac=
k to
be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah,
when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram
king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he=
was
sick.
1 And Elisha =
the
prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird=
up
thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead: =
2 And when th=
ou
comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimsh=
i,
and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to =
an
inner chamber;
3 Then take t=
he box
of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anoin=
ted
thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.
4 So the youn=
g man,
even the young man the prophet, went to Ramothgilead.
5 And when he=
came,
behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have an erran=
d to
thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee,=
O
captain.
6 And he aros=
e, and
went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, =
Thus
saith the LORD God of Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of =
the
LORD, even over Israel.
7 And thou sh=
alt
smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my serva=
nts
the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of
Jezebel.
8 For the who=
le
house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth
against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel:
9 And I will =
make
the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the
house of Baasha the son of Ahijah:
10 And the dogs shall eat
Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. And=
he
opened the door, and fled.
11 Then Jehu came forth to=
the
servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came th=
is
mad fellow to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his
communication.
12 And they said, It is fa=
lse;
tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith =
the
LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel.
13 Then they hasted, and t=
ook
every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and b=
lew
with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.
14 So Jehu the son of
Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept
Ramothgilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria.
15 But king Joram was retu=
rned
to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when=
he
fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then=
let
none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.
16 So Jehu rode in a chari=
ot,
and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come
down to see Joram.
17 And there stood a watch=
man on
the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said=
, I
see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and=
let
him say, Is it peace?
18 So there went one on
horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu
said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman
told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.
19 Then he sent out a seco=
nd on
horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? =
And
Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
20 And the watchman told,
saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is li=
ke
the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
21 And Joram said, Make re=
ady.
And his chariot was made ready. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of
Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met
him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
22 And it came to pass, wh=
en
Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peac=
e,
so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so m=
any?
23 And Joram turned his ha=
nds,
and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
24 And Jehu drew a bow wit=
h his
full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at
his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
25 Then said Jehu to Bidka=
r his
captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the
Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab=
his
father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;
26 Surely I have seen yest=
erday
the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will
requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him =
into
the plat of ground, according to the word of the LORD.
27 But when Ahaziah the ki=
ng of
Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed a=
fter
him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. And they did so at the going =
up
to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
28 And his servants carrie=
d him
in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers=
in
the city of David.
29 And in the eleventh yea=
r of
Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
30 And when Jehu was come =
to
Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head,=
and
looked out at a window.
31 And as Jehu entered in =
at the
gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?
32 And he lifted up his fa=
ce to
the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him t=
wo
or three eunuchs.
33 And he said, Throw her =
down.
So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, an=
d on
the horses: and he trode her under foot.
34 And when he was come in=
, he
did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: f=
or
she is a king's daughter.
35 And they went to bury h=
er:
but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of
her hands.
36 Wherefore they came aga=
in,
and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spake by =
his
servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs e=
at
the flesh of Jezebel:
37 And the carcase of Jeze=
bel
shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so t=
hat
they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
1 And Ahab had
seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto =
the rulers
of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, say=
ing,
2 Now as soon=
as
this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there
are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;
3 Look even o=
ut the
best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne,=
and
fight for your master's house.
4 But they we=
re
exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how t=
hen
shall we stand?
5 And he that=
was
over the house, and he that was over the city, the elders also, and the
bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and
will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou that
which is good in thine eyes.
6 Then he wro=
te a
letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will heark=
en
unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to=
me
to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy perso=
ns, were
with the great men of the city, which brought them up.
7 And it came=
to
pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew
seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezre=
el.
8 And there c=
ame a messenger,
and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he
said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the
morning.
9 And it came=
to
pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the peopl=
e,
Ye be righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but w=
ho
slew all these?
10 Know now that there sha=
ll
fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spake
concerning the house of Ahab: for the LORD hath done that which he spake by=
his
servant Elijah.
11 So Jehu slew all that
remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his
kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
12 And he arose and depart=
ed,
and came to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing house in the way,
13 Jehu met with the breth=
ren of
Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the
brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and =
the
children of the queen.
14 And he said, Take them =
alive.
And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, e=
ven
two and forty men; neither left he any of them.
15 And when he was departed
thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he
saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy
heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he =
gave
him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
16 And he said, Come with =
me,
and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.
17 And when he came to Sam=
aria,
he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him,
according to the saying of the LORD, which he spake to Elijah.
18 And Jehu gathered all t=
he
people together, and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu sh=
all
serve him much.
19 Now therefore call unto=
me
all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be
wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be
wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that=
he
might destroy the worshippers of Baal.
20 And Jehu said, Proclaim=
a
solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.
21 And Jehu sent through a=
ll
Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man l=
eft
that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal =
was
full from one end to another.
22 And he said unto him th=
at was
over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And=
he
brought them forth vestments.
23 And Jehu went, and Jeho=
nadab
the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of
Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of =
the
LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only.
24 And when they went in to
offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without,=
and
said, If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he that
letteth him go, his life shall be for the life of him.
25 And it came to pass, as=
soon
as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the
guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And t=
hey
smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast =
them
out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.
26 And they brought forth =
the
images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
27 And they brake down the=
image
of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto
this day.
28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baa=
l out
of Israel.
29 Howbeit from the sins of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from a=
fter
them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan. =
30 And the LORD said unto =
Jehu,
Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, =
and
hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, t=
hy
children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.
31 But Jehu took no heed t=
o walk
in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not
from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
32 In those days the LORD =
began
to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
33 From Jordan eastward, a=
ll the
land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from
Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
34 Now the rest of the act=
s of
Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the b=
ook
of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
35 And Jehu slept with his
fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his
stead.
36 And the time that Jehu
reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.
1 And when At=
haliah
the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all
the seed royal.
2 But Jehoshe=
ba,
the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahazia=
h,
and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him,
even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not
slain.
3 And he was =
with
her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over the
land.
4 And the sev=
enth
year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains =
and
the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a
covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and
shewed them the king's son.
5 And he comm=
anded
them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that
enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's ho=
use;
6 And a third=
part
shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard:=
so
shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.
7 And two par=
ts of
all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the
house of the LORD about the king.
8 And ye shall
compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he
that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as=
he
goeth out and as he cometh in.
9 And the cap=
tains
over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest
commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabb=
ath,
with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the pries=
t.
10 And to the captains ove=
r hundreds
did the priest give king David's spears and shields, that were in the templ=
e of
the LORD.
11 And the guard stood, ev=
ery
man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corn=
er
of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the
temple.
12 And he brought forth the
king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they
made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God
save the king.
13 And when Athaliah heard=
the
noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the templ=
e of
the LORD.
14 And when she looked, be=
hold,
the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the
trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew w=
ith
trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
15 But Jehoiada the priest
commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said =
unto
them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill wi=
th
the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the
LORD.
16 And they laid hands on =
her;
and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king's house:=
and
there was she slain.
17 And Jehoiada made a cov=
enant
between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD's
people; between the king also and the people.
18 And all the people of t=
he
land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his ima=
ges
brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before =
the
altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
19 And he took the rulers =
over
hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; =
and
they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way =
of
the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the
kings.
20 And all the people of t=
he
land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the s=
word
beside the king's house.
21 Seven years old was Jeh=
oash
when he began to reign.
1 In the seve=
nth
year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusale=
m.
And his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2 And Jehoash=
did
that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada=
the
priest instructed him.
3 But the high
places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in
the high places.
4 And Jehoash=
said
to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into =
the
house of the LORD, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the
money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man's
heart to bring into the house of the LORD,
5 Let the pri=
ests
take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the
breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.
6 But it was =
so,
that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not
repaired the breaches of the house.
7 Then king J=
ehoash
called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, =
Why
repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more mone=
y of
your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
8 And the pri=
ests
consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the
breaches of the house.
9 But Jehoiad=
a the
priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside t=
he
altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the
priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into =
the
house of the LORD.
10 And it was so, when the=
y saw
that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high
priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found =
in
the house of the LORD.
11 And they gave the money,
being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversigh=
t of
the house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders,
that wrought upon the house of the LORD,
12 And to masons, and hewe=
rs of
stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the hous=
e of
the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
13 Howbeit there were not =
made
for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any
vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into t=
he
house of the LORD:
14 But they gave that to t=
he
workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the LORD.
15 Moreover they reckoned =
not
with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on
workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
16 The trespass money and =
sin
money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests'.
17 Then Hazael king of Syr=
ia
went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to g=
o up
to Jerusalem.
18 And Jehoash king of Jud=
ah
took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his
fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all
the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in t=
he
king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Je=
rusalem.
19 And the rest of the act=
s of
Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronic=
les
of the kings of Judah?
20 And his servants arose,=
and
made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to
Silla.
21 For Jozachar the son of
Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he
died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah
his son reigned in his stead.
1 In the thre=
e and
twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of
Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.
2 And he did =
that
which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam =
the
son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
3 And the ang=
er of
the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of
Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all
their days.
4 And Jehoahaz
besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppressi=
on
of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.
5 (And the LO=
RD
gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the
Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.
6 Nevertheles=
s they
departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, b=
ut
walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)
7 Neither did=
he
leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and t=
en
thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made th=
em
like the dust by threshing.
8 Now the res=
t of
the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not writ=
ten
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
9 And Jehoahaz
slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son
reigned in his stead.
10 In the thirty and seven=
th
year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over
Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years.
11 And he did that which w=
as
evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin: but he walked therein.
12 And the rest of the act=
s of
Joash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amazi=
ah
king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the ki=
ngs
of Israel?
13 And Joash slept with his
fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria =
with
the kings of Israel.
14 Now Elisha was fallen s=
ick of
his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto h=
im,
and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of
Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
15 And Elisha said unto hi=
m,
Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows.
16 And he said to the king=
of
Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha
put his hands upon the king's hands.
17 And he said, Open the w=
indow
eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he sa=
id,
The arrow of the LORD's deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syri=
a:
for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.
18 And he said, Take the a=
rrows.
And he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the groun=
d.
And he smote thrice, and stayed.
19 And the man of God was =
wroth
with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then had=
st
thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite
Syria but thrice.
20 And Elisha died, and th=
ey
buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in=
of
the year.
21 And it came to pass, as=
they
were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast t=
he
man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched
the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
22 But Hazael king of Syria
oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
23 And the LORD was gracio=
us
unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of
his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them,
neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
24 So Hazael king of Syria=
died;
and Benhadad his son reigned in his stead.
25 And Jehoash the son of
Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the citie=
s,
which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three tim=
es
did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.
1 In the seco=
nd
year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joa=
sh
king of Judah.
2 He was twen=
ty and
five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in
Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
3 And he did =
that
which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he=
did
according to all things as Joash his father did.
4 Howbeit the=
high
places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incen=
se
on the high places.
5 And it came=
to
pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his
servants which had slain the king his father.
6 But the chi=
ldren
of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the b=
ook
of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall =
not
be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the
fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
7 He slew of =
Edom
in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the n=
ame
of it Joktheel unto this day.
8 Then Amazia=
h sent
messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, say=
ing,
Come, let us look one another in the face.
9 And Jehoash=
the
king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was =
in
Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to=
my
son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode
down the thistle.
10 Thou hast indeed smitten
Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home:
for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even t=
hou,
and Judah with thee?
11 But Amaziah would not h=
ear.
Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah
looked one another in the face at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
12 And Judah was put to the
worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents.
13 And Jehoash king of Isr=
ael
took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at
Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem fr=
om
the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
14 And he took all the gol= d and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria. <= o:p>
15 Now the rest of the act=
s of
Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of
Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
16 And Jehoash slept with =
his
fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam h=
is
son reigned in his stead.
17 And Amaziah the son of =
Joash
king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Isra=
el
fifteen years.
18 And the rest of the act=
s of
Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of=
Judah?
19Now
they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but
they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
20 And they brought him on
horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of Davi=
d.
21 And all the people of J=
udah
took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his
father Amaziah.
22 He built Elath, and res=
tored
it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
23 In the fifteenth year of
Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Is=
rael
began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.
24 And he did that which w=
as
evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
25 He restored the coast of
Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to =
the
word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant
Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.
26 For the LORD saw the
affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut u=
p,
nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.
27 And the LORD said not t=
hat he
would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by t=
he
hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
28 Now the rest of the act=
s of
Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he
recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are th=
ey
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
29 And Jeroboam slept with=
his
fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his
stead.
1 In the twen=
ty and
seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of
Judah to reign.
2 Sixteen yea=
rs old
was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusa=
lem.
And his mother's name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
3 And he did =
that
which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father
Amaziah had done;
4 Save that t=
he
high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still=
on
the high places.
5 And the LORD
smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt=
in
a several house. And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the
people of the land.
6 And the res=
t of
the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book =
of
the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
7 So Azariah =
slept
with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David:
and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
8 In the thir=
ty and
eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign
over Israel in Samaria six months.
9 And he did =
that
which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he depart=
ed
not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
10 And Shallum the son of =
Jabesh
conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and
reigned in his stead.
11 And the rest of the act=
s of
Zachariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the ki=
ngs
of Israel.
12 This was the word of th=
e LORD
which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel
unto the fourth generation. And so it came to pass.
13 Shallum the son of Jabe=
sh
began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and =
he
reigned a full month in Samaria.
14 For Menahem the son of =
Gadi
went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabe=
sh
in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
15 And the rest of the act=
s of
Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the =
book
of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
16 Then Menahem smote Tiph=
sah,
and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they
opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that we=
re
with child he ripped up.
17 In the nine and thirtie=
th
year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over
Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria.
18 And he did that which w=
as
evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not all his days from the sins of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
19 And Pul the king of Ass=
yria
came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, t=
hat
his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
20 And Menahem exacted the=
money
of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels =
of
silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back,=
and
stayed not there in the land.
21 And the rest of the act=
s of
Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
22 And Menahem slept with =
his
fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.
23 In the fiftieth year of
Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israe=
l in
Samaria, and reigned two years.
24 And he did that which w=
as
evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
25 But Pekah the son of
Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria=
, in
the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty me=
n of
the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
26 And the rest of the act=
s of
Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel.
27 In the two and fiftieth=
year
of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Isra=
el
in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.
28 And he did that which w=
as
evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
29 In the days of Pekah ki=
ng of
Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaac=
hah,
and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of
Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
30 And Hoshea the son of E=
lah
made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew
him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of
Uzziah.
31 And the rest of the act=
s of
Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel.
32 In the second year of P=
ekah
the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of J=
udah
to reign.
33 Five and twenty years o=
ld was
he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And h=
is
mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
34 And he did that which w=
as
right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzz=
iah
had done.
35 Howbeit the high places=
were
not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high pla=
ces.
He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
36 Now the rest of the act=
s of
Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chroni=
cles
of the kings of Judah?
37 In those days the LORD =
began
to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remalia=
h.
38 And Jotham slept with h=
is
fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: a=
nd
Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
1 In the
seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of
Judah began to reign.
2 Twenty year=
s old
was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and
did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David h=
is
father.
3 But he walk=
ed in
the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the f=
ire,
according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from
before the children of Israel.
4 And he sacr=
ificed
and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every gre=
en
tree.
5 Then Rezin =
king
of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to w=
ar:
and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
6 At that time
Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath:
and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.
7 So Ahaz sent
messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and =
thy
son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of =
the
hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.
8 And Ahaz to=
ok the
silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasur=
es
of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
9 And the kin= g of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascu= s, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin. <= o:p>
10 And king Ahaz went to
Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was =
at
Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar,=
and
the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
11 And Urijah the priest b=
uilt
an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah =
the
priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.
12 And when the king was c=
ome
from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar,
and offered thereon.
13 And he burnt his burnt
offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled
the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.
14 And he brought also the
brasen altar, which was before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, f=
rom
between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of
the altar.
15 And king Ahaz commanded
Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offe=
ring,
and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat
offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their =
meat
offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of =
the
burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar sh=
all
be for me to enquire by.
16 Thus did Urijah the pri=
est,
according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
17 And king Ahaz cut off t=
he
borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the
sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon the paveme=
nt
of stones.
18 And the covert for the
sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, tur=
ned
he from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.
19 Now the rest of the act=
s of
Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
20 And Ahaz slept with his
fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah=
his
son reigned in his stead.
1 In the twel=
fth
year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria
over Israel nine years.
2 And he did =
that
which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that
were before him.
3 Against him=
came
up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him
presents.
4 And the kin= g of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison. <= o:p>
5 Then the ki=
ng of
Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieg=
ed
it three years.
6 In the nint=
h year
of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into
Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in
the cities of the Medes.
7 For so it w=
as,
that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which ha=
d brought
them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Eg=
ypt,
and had feared other gods,
8 And walked =
in the
statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of
Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
9 And the chi=
ldren
of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD th=
eir
God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of=
the
watchmen to the fenced city.
10 And they set them up im=
ages
and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
11 And there they burnt in=
cense
in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before
them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
12 For they served idols,
whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
13 Yet the LORD testified
against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seer=
s,
saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statut=
es,
according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to
you by my servants the prophets.
14 Notwithstanding they wo=
uld
not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that=
did
not believe in the LORD their God.
15 And they rejected his
statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimo=
nies
which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain,=
and
went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD=
had
charged them, that they should not do like them.
16 And they left all the
commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two
calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served
Baal.
17 And they caused their s=
ons
and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and
enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to
provoke him to anger.
18 Therefore the LORD was =
very
angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left b=
ut
the tribe of Judah only.
19 Also Judah kept not the
commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel wh=
ich
they made.
20 And the LORD rejected a=
ll the
seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of
spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
21 For he rent Israel from=
the
house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam
drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
22 For the children of Isr=
ael
walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from the=
m;
23 Until the LORD removed =
Israel
out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was
Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
24 And the king of Assyria
brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, a=
nd
from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the
children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities
thereof.
25 And so it was at the
beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore=
the
LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them.
26 Wherefore they spake to=
the
king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in=
the
cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he
hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know =
not
the manner of the God of the land.
27 Then the king of Assyria
commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from
thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner =
of
the God of the land.
28 Then one of the priests=
whom
they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them
how they should fear the LORD.
29 Howbeit every nation ma=
de
gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the
Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
30 And the men of Babylon =
made
Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made
Ashima,
31 And the Avites made Nib=
haz
and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech=
and
Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
32 So they feared the LORD=
, and
made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which
sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
33 They feared the LORD, a=
nd
served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried aw=
ay
from thence.
34 Unto this day they do a=
fter
the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their
statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which=
the
LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
35 With whom the LORD had =
made a
covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow
yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
36 But the LORD, who broug=
ht you
up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him s=
hall
ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
37 And the statutes, and t=
he
ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye sh=
all
observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.
38 And the covenant that I=
have
made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. <= o:p>
40 Howbeit they did not he=
arken,
but they did after their former manner.
41 So these nations feared=
the
LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their childr=
en's
children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
1 Now it came=
to
pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah =
the
son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2 Twenty and =
five
years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine yea=
rs
in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
3 And he did =
that
which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his
father did.
4 He removed =
the
high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pi=
eces
the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of
Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
5 He trusted =
in the
LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings=
of
Judah, nor any that were before him.
6 For he clav=
e to
the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, w=
hich
the LORD commanded Moses.
7 And the LOR=
D was
with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled aga=
inst
the king of Assyria, and served him not.
8 He smote the
Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the
watchmen to the fenced city.
9 And it came=
to
pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hos=
hea
son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against
Samaria, and besieged it.
10 And at the end of three=
years
they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is in the ninth year=
of
Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
11 And the king of Assyria=
did
carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the r=
iver
of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:
12 Because they obeyed not=
the
voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Mo=
ses
the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
13 Now in the fourteenth y=
ear of
king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced
cities of Judah, and took them.
14 And Hezekiah king of Ju=
dah
sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from
me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria
appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and
thirty talents of gold.
15 And Hezekiah gave him a=
ll the
silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the
king's house.
16 At that time did Hezeki=
ah cut
off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars
which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyr=
ia.
17 And the king of Assyria=
sent
Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great
host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when th=
ey
were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which i=
s in
the highway of the fuller's field.
18 And when they had calle= d to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over= the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder. <= o:p>
19 And Rabshakeh said unto=
them,
Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, W=
hat
confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
20 Thou sayest, (but they =
are
but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost =
thou
trust, that thou rebellest against me?
21 Now, behold, thou trust=
est
upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lea=
n,
it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto a=
ll
that trust on him.
22 But if ye say unto me, =
We
trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose alta=
rs
Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall
worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
23 Now therefore, I pray t=
hee,
give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two
thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
24 How then wilt thou turn=
away
the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy t=
rust
on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
25 Am I now come up withou=
t the
LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against t=
his
land, and destroy it.
26 Then said Eliakim the s=
on of
Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy
servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us=
in
the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
27 But Rabshakeh said unto=
them,
Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? ha=
th
he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own
dung, and drink their own piss with you?
28 Then Rabshakeh stood and
cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the =
word
of the great king, the king of Assyria:
29 Thus saith the king, Le=
t not
Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his ha=
nd:
30 Neither let Hezekiah ma=
ke you
trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city s=
hall
not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
31 Hearken not to Hezekiah=
: for
thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and
come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of=
his
fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
32 Until I come and take y=
ou
away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread=
and
vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die:=
and
hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will
deliver us.
33 Hath any of the gods of= the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? <= o:p>
34 Where are the gods of H=
amath,
and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they
delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
35 Who are they among all =
the
gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, =
that
the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
36 But the people held the=
ir
peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying,
Answer him not.
37 Then came Eliakim the s=
on of
Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the =
son
of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the
words of Rabshakeh.
1 And it came=
to
pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered
himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
2 And he sent
Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elder=
s of
the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.=
3 And they sa=
id
unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke,=
and
blasphemy; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strengt=
h to
bring forth.
4 It may be t=
he
LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria=
his
master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words whi=
ch
the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant t=
hat
are left.
5 So the serv=
ants
of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 And Isaiah =
said
unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not af=
raid
of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of
Assyria have blasphemed me.
7 Behold, I w=
ill
send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his =
own
land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
8 So Rabshakeh
returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had
heard that he was departed from Lachish.
9 And when he=
heard
say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against t=
hee:
he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,
10 Thus shall ye speak to
Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest decei=
ve
thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of
Assyria.
11 Behold, thou hast heard=
what
the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and
shalt thou be delivered?
12 Have the gods of the na=
tions
delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and
Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
13 Where is the king of Ha=
math,
and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and
Ivah?
14 And Hezekiah received t=
he
letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into
the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
15 And Hezekiah prayed bef=
ore
the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherub=
ims,
thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou h=
ast
made heaven and earth.
16 LORD, bow down thine ea=
r, and
hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, w=
hich
hath sent him to reproach the living God.
17 Of a truth, LORD, the k=
ings
of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
18 And have cast their god=
s into
the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and ston=
e:
therefore they have destroyed them.
19 Now therefore, O LORD o=
ur
God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of=
the
earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.
20 Then Isaiah the son of =
Amoz
sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou
hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
21 This is the word that t=
he
LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despi=
sed
thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her =
head
at thee.
22 Whom hast thou reproach=
ed and
blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thi=
ne
eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
23 By thy messengers thou =
hast
reproached the LORD, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am =
come
up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut do=
wn
the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will
enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel. =
24 I have digged and drunk
strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers=
of
besieged places.
25 Hast thou not heard lon=
g ago
how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I
brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into
ruinous heaps.
26 Therefore their inhabit=
ants
were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the gr=
ass
of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as
corn blasted before it be grown up.
27 But I know thy abode, a=
nd thy
going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
28 Because thy rage agains=
t me
and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in t=
hy
nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by wh=
ich
thou camest.
29 And this shall be a sig=
n unto
thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the
second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye,=
and
reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
30 And the remnant that is
escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear
fruit upward.
31 For out of Jerusalem sh=
all go
forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LO=
RD
of hosts shall do this.
32 Therefore thus saith th=
e LORD
concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot=
an
arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
33 By the way that he came=
, by
the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD=
.
34 For I will defend this =
city,
to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
35 And it came to pass that
night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the
Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early=
in
the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
36 So Sennacherib king of
Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
37 And it came to pass, as=
he
was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Share=
zer
his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armeni=
a.
And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
1 In those da=
ys was
Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to hi=
m,
and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou
shalt die, and not live.
2 Then he tur=
ned
his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying,
3 I beseech t=
hee, O
LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect
heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sor=
e.
4 And it came=
to
pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the
LORD came to him, saying,
5 Turn again,=
and
tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Dav=
id
thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will =
heal
thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.
6 And I will =
add
unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of t=
he
hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake,=
and
for my servant David's sake.
7 And Isaiah =
said,
Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovere=
d.
8 And Hezekia=
h said
unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I
shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?
9 And Isaiah =
said,
This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that=
he
hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degree=
s?
10 And Hezekiah answered, =
It is
a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow
return backward ten degrees.
11 And Isaiah the prophet =
cried
unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it =
had
gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
12 At that time Berodachba=
ladan,
the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezeki=
ah:
for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
13 And Hezekiah hearkened =
unto
them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and=
the
gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his
armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his
house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
14 Then came Isaiah the pr=
ophet
unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence
came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, e=
ven
from Babylon.
15 And he said, What have =
they
seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in mine
house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not
shewed them.
16 And Isaiah said unto
Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.
17 Behold, the days come, =
that
all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store
unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith =
the
LORD.
18 And of thy sons that sh=
all
issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they sha=
ll
be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
19 Then said Hezekiah unto
Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, I=
s it
not good, if peace and truth be in my days?
20 And the rest of the act=
s of
Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and bro=
ught
water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of =
the
kings of Judah?
21 And Hezekiah slept with=
his
fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
1 Manasseh was
twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in
Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah.
2 And he did =
that
which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heat=
hen,
whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
3 For he buil=
t up
again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reare=
d up
altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipp=
ed
all the host of heaven, and served them.
4 And he built
altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I
put my name.
5 And he built
altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LOR=
D.
6 And he made=
his
son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and d=
ealt
with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight =
of
the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
7 And he set a
graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD =
said
to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I =
have
chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
8 Neither wil=
l I
make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their
fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have comma=
nded
them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
9 But they
hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the natio=
ns
whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
10 And the LORD spake by h=
is
servants the prophets, saying,
11 Because Manasseh king of
Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that t=
he
Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with h=
is
idols:
12 Therefore thus saith th=
e LORD
God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, th=
at
whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
13 And I will stretch over
Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I =
will
wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside dow=
n.
14 And I will forsake the
remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemie=
s;
and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
15&=
nbsp; Because
they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to ang=
er,
since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
16 Moreover Manasseh shed
innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to anot=
her;
beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil=
in
the sight of the LORD.
17 Now the rest of the act=
s of
Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not wri=
tten
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
18 And Manasseh slept with=
his
fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uz=
za:
and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
19 Amon was twenty and two=
years
old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
20 And he did that which w=
as
evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
21 And he walked in all th=
e way
that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and
worshipped them:
22 And he forsook the LORD=
God
of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
23 And the servants of Amon
conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
24 And the people of the l=
and
slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the l=
and
made Josiah his son king in his stead.
25 Now the rest of the act=
s of
Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
26 And he was buried in his
sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
1 Josiah was =
eight
years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in
Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of
Boscath.
2 And he did =
that
which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of Davi=
d his
father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
3 And it came=
to
pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the =
son
of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, say=
ing,
4 Go up to Hi=
lkiah
the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house=
of
the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:
5 And let them
deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight =
of
the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which =
is
in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,
6 Unto carpen=
ters,
and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the ho=
use.
7 Howbeit the=
re was
no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand,
because they dealt faithfully.
8 And Hilkiah=
the
high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law =
in
the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it=
.
9 And Shaphan=
the
scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy
servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have
delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversigh=
t of
the house of the LORD.
10 And Shaphan the scribe =
shewed
the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan =
read
it before the king.
11 And it came to pass, wh=
en the
king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes. =
12 And the king commanded
Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of
Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, sayi=
ng,
13 Go ye, enquire of the L=
ORD
for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this
book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled agai=
nst
us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to =
do
according unto all that which is written concerning us.
14 So Hilkiah the priest, =
and
Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophete=
ss,
the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the
wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed wi=
th
her.
15 And she said unto them,=
Thus
saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,
16 Thus saith the LORD, Be=
hold,
I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even a=
ll
the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:
17 Because they have forsa=
ken
me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to
anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled
against this place, and shall not be quenched.
18 But to the king of Judah
which sent you to enquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith=
the
LORD God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;
19 Because thine heart was
tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest w=
hat
I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they
should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept
before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
20 Behold therefore, I will
gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in
peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon th=
is
place. And they brought the king word again.
1 And the king
sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. =
2 And the kin=
g went
up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabit=
ants
of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the peopl=
e,
both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of
the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.
3 And the king
stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the L=
ORD,
and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all
their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that =
were
written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
4 And the king
commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and=
the
keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the
vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of
heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and
carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
5 And he put =
down
the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incens=
e in
the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about
Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the
moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
6 And he brou=
ght
out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook
Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, =
and
cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
7 And he brak=
e down
the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the
women wove hangings for the grove.
8 And he brou=
ght
all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places whe=
re
the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the =
high
places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the
governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the ci=
ty.
9 Nevertheles=
s the
priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusale=
m,
but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
10 And he defiled Topheth,=
which
is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son =
or
his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
11 And he took away the ho=
rses
that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the hou=
se
of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in t=
he
suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
12 And the altars that wer=
e on
the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and
the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LO=
RD,
did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust =
of
them into the brook Kidron.
13 And the high places tha=
t were
before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption,
which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination =
of
the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Mil=
com
the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
14 And he brake in pieces =
the
images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of =
men.
15 Moreover the altar that=
was
at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Isr=
ael
to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and bur=
ned
the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
16 And as Josiah turned hi=
mself,
he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the
bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted i=
t,
according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who
proclaimed these words.
17 Then he said, What titl=
e is
that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of t=
he
man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou ha=
st
done against the altar of Bethel.
18 And he said, Let him al=
one;
let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of t=
he
prophet that came out of Samaria.
19 And all the houses also=
of
the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Isra=
el
had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them
according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
20 And he slew all the pri=
ests
of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones =
upon
them, and returned to Jerusalem.
21 And the king commanded =
all
the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is writ=
ten
in the book of this covenant.
22 Surely there was not ho=
lden
such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all =
the
days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
23 But in the eighteenth y=
ear of
king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
24 Moreover the workers wi=
th
familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all t=
he
abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Jos=
iah
put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in =
the
book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
25 And like unto him was t=
here
no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all
his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither
after him arose there any like him.
26 Notwithstanding the LORD
turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was
kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had
provoked him withal.
27 And the LORD said, I wi=
ll
remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast =
off
this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My =
name
shall be there.
28 Now the rest of the act=
s of
Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chroni=
cles
of the kings of Judah?
29 In his days Pharaohnech=
oh
king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: a=
nd
king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen =
him.
30 And his servants carrie=
d him
in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried hi=
m in
his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josi=
ah,
and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.
31 Jehoahaz was twenty and=
three
years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.=
And
his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
32 And he did that which w=
as
evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. =
33 And Pharaohnechoh put h=
im in
bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem;
and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent=
of
gold.
34 And Pharaohnechoh made
Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned=
his
name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died
there.
35 And Jehoiakim gave the =
silver
and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according =
to
the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the peopl=
e of
the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto
Pharaohnechoh.
36 Jehoiakim was twenty an=
d five
years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.=
And
his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
37 And he did that which w= as evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.<= o:p>
1 In his days
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant th=
ree
years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
2 And the LOR=
D sent
against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of t=
he
Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to
destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servan=
ts
the prophets.
3 Surely at t=
he
commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sig=
ht,
for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
4 And also fo=
r the
innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; w=
hich
the LORD would not pardon.
5 Now the res=
t of
the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the boo=
k of
the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
6 So Jehoiakim
slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
7 And the kin=
g of
Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had
taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to
the king of Egypt.
8 Jehoiachin =
was
eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three
months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of
Jerusalem.
9 And he did =
that
which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father h=
ad
done.
10 At that time the servan=
ts of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was
besieged.
11 And Nebuchadnezzar king=
of
Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
12 And Jehoiachin the king=
of
Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants,
and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the
eighth year of his reign.
13 And he carried out then=
ce all
the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's hou=
se,
and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had =
made
in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.
14 And he carried away all
Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten
thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the
poorest sort of the people of the land.
15 And he carried away
Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his=
officers,
and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem =
to
Babylon.
16 And all the men of migh=
t,
even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were str=
ong
and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. =
17 And the king of Babylon=
made
Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to
Zedekiah.
18 Zedekiah was twenty and=
one
years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.=
And
his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
19 And he did that which w=
as
evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
20 For through the anger o=
f the
LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from
his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
1 And it came=
to
pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of
the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host,
against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it
round about.
2 And the cit=
y was
besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
3 And on the =
ninth
day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no
bread for the people of the land.
4 And the cit=
y was
broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate betw=
een
two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the
city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
5 And the arm=
y of
the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jeri=
cho:
and all his army were scattered from him.
6 So they too=
k the
king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave
judgment upon him.
7 And they sl=
ew the
sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bou=
nd
him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
8 And in the =
fifth
month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a
servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
9 And he burn=
t the
house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, a=
nd
every great man's house burnt he with fire.
10 And all the army of the
Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of
Jerusalem round about.
11 Now the rest of the peo=
ple
that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of
Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of =
the
guard carry away.
12 But the captain of the =
guard
left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
13 And the pillars of bras=
s that
were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in
the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the br=
ass
of them to Babylon.
14 And the pots, and the
shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass
wherewith they ministered, took they away.
15 And the firepans, and t=
he
bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, =
the
captain of the guard took away.
16 The two pillars, one se=
a, and
the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all
these vessels was without weight.
17 The height of the one p=
illar
was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of =
the
chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the
chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pill=
ar
with wreathen work.
18 And the captain of the =
guard
took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the thr=
ee
keepers of the door:
19 And out of the city he =
took
an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were=
in
the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe=
of
the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the
people of the land that were found in the city:
20 And Nebuzaradan captain=
of
the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
21 And the king of Babylon=
smote
them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried a=
way
out of their land.
22 And as for the people t=
hat
remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left,
even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, rule=
r.
23 And when all the captai= ns of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth = the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men. <= o:p>
24 And Gedaliah sware to t=
hem,
and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the
Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be
well with you.
25 But it came to pass in =
the
seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of t=
he
seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, a=
nd
the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
26 And all the people, both
small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: =
for
they were afraid of the Chaldees.
27 And it came to pass in =
the
seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in t=
he
twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmeroda=
ch
king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of
Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
28 And he spake kindly to =
him,
and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Baby=
lon;
29 And changed his prison
garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his l=
ife.
30 And his allowance was a
continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all =
the
days of his life.
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Also
try: